Royal Ontario Museum Archaeological Newsletter
The Royal Ontario Museum is no longer producing the Archaeological Newsletter (ANL). The final issue was Series IV, No. 6, December 2009. We have created a ROM membership-based group entitled Friends of Archaeology (FA). The Friends of Archaeology provides a biannual FA newsletter and two events for members each year, and organizes other events such as an annual symposium and public lectures.
The ANL began life in 1956 as a leisurely letter from the trenches of the Jerusalem Project to ROM members back in Canada. The late Dr. Douglas A. Tushingham thought that members might like to be kept informed about the latest research ROM archaeologists were doing in the field. The ANL proved to be very popular as members felt connected to their Museum and its research in a tangible way. Topic areas have included interim reports on long-term excavation and survey projects, blood residue, petrographic, and use-wear analyses, detecting ceramic fakes, underwater archaeology, public archaeology, epigraphic recording, the early use of archaeological databases, and rock art research among many others. Articles have centred on research in areas as diverse as China, Ontario, Egypt and Sudan, Yemen, Belize, and Peru among others. We are pleased to offer past Archaeological Newsletters (ANL) online.
The Friends of Archaeology (FA) will proceed in developing a community of people who are interested in the archaeology of the world, and wish to support archaeology and archaeological programming at the ROM.
ANL Archived IssuesNo Garden in Eden: Hunting for Syria’s First Urban Dwellers
Series IV, No. 6, December 2009
Clemens Reichel , Associate Curator (Ancient Near East), Department of World Cultures, ROM, & Assistant Professor (Mesopotamian Archaeology), Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto.
Making the Pottery Cross at the Monastery of St. Moses the Abyssinian, Syria
Series IV, No. 5, May 2009
Robert Mason, Department of World Cultures, ROM & Department of Near and Middle Eastern
Civilizations, University of Toronto. Monks and Masons at the Monastery of St. Moses the Abyssinian, Syria
Series IV, No. 4, December 2008
Robert Mason, Department of World Cultures, ROM & Department of Near and Middle Eastern
Civilizations, University of Toronto.Who Owns the Cave? - Zhoukoudian Cave Revisited.
Series IV, No. 3, May 2008
Chen Shen, Senior Curator, Department of World Cultures
Xiaoling Zhang, PhD Candidate, Chinese Academy of Sciences, BeijingA Horse’s Tail Tale or Not?
Series IV, No. 2, October 2007, by Mima Kapches (Senior Curator Emeritus), Department of World CulturesAncient Beer: or the wayward ethnographic wanderings of an archaeologist
Series IV, No. 1, April 2007
Dr. Justin Jennings , Associate Curator, Department of World CulturesThe Tomb of Amenmose: Almost Done
Series III, No. 18, March 2006
Roberta L. Shaw , Assistant Curator (Retired), Department of World CulturesMausoleum of Mamluk Emir Kabir Qurqumas in Cairo
Series III, No. 17, April 2005, by Krysztof Ciuk (Retired), Department of World CulturesSoak In Water and Refridgerate for 160 years: A recipe for corrosion.
Series III, No. 16, Aug 2004, by Bob Ramkik, Department of Natural HistoryNine Mile Canyon, Utah: Too hot for rattlers, thank goodness!
Series III, No. 15, October 2003, by Mima Kapches (Senior Curator Emeritus), Department of World CulturesIn Search of a Fabled City: Meroe in the Sudan
Series III, No. 14, March 2003, by Krzys Grzymski, Department of World CulturesThe Face That Launched a Thousand Fakes
Series III, No. 13, October 2002, by Adam Sellen, Postdoctoral Fellow Department of World CulturesToronto's Archaeological Past: A Primer
Series III, No. 12, May 2002, by Mima Kapches (Senior Curator Emeritus), Department of World CulturesOne Man's Map is Another Man's Distortion
Series III, No. 11, June 2001, by E. J. Keall (Senior Curator Emeritus), Department of World CulturesThe Ashbridge Site, Toronto
Series III, No. 10, December 2000, by Dena Dorozenko, Department of World CulturesBeachcombing Into The Past: Revisited
Series III, No. 9, July 2000, by Peter L. Storck (Senior Curator Emeritus), Department of World Cultures"To A Wild Rose" - But Not the Edward MacDowell Kind
New Series, No. 116, January 1975, by William M. Hurley, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
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